High Altitude shooting

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allbread

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I live in Colorado and am about to pull the trigger on an S900 for my Panasonic GH4. However, I live in Colorado and would, of course, like to get into the high country and shoot in the 12,000 - 14,000 ft MSL range and want to make sure that I still have enough thrust to get the heli a few hundred feet in the air from the lower end of that spectrum.

I'm assuming that I can't "prop up" on the S900 as we do on our planes out here. Anyone have any experience at this elevation? Think the S900 can pull it off or should I be looking at the S1000 and keep the lighter camera on there.

Thanks for any input!

Ryan
 

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papatango

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allbread said:
I'm assuming that I can't "prop up" on the S900 as we do on our planes out here. Anyone have any experience at this elevation? Think the S900 can pull it off or should I be looking at the S1000 and keep the lighter camera on there.

Thanks for any input!

Ryan
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You could "Prop Up" by going with a 3-bladed adaptor from KDE. Email them directly and see if Patrick has any input on this.

PT
 

Av8Chuck

Av8Chuck

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I've flown at about 9000 ft MSL, it was a little soft, actually flew a lot smoother than at sea level but I was running 10" props on pretty high 770KV motors with an all up weight of about four pounds.

I used to fly UH-1's in the army and 14,000 ft MSL is higher than the service ceiling with an L13. Sorry I can't really help, i'm interested in how it turns out.
 




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